File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎624r] (895/1080)

with the pe^s^ntry can save the Socialist devolution
while that devolution ^oos on in other countries. M
The article continues — The qorkrrn requires wheat and
other products of agriculture while the peasant wants the
products of the town — cloth, footwear, nf tches, srlt,
and many other things. 'To fulfil these demands is to save
the He pub lie by cancelling the dissensions between tov/n
and country,
therein is the root of dissension between peasants and
Workmen? How are ill feelings among workers to be assuaged?
In order to get wheat and forage from the countryside
the Soviet G-overnmeat has instituted the acquisition of
everything from the peasantry leaving only tte t which is
normally necessary. The peasantry has hidden its wheat and
desisted from further saving.
0an the proletariat stand such s state of affair^? Gan
it endure such when the end of their journey is insight?
h 0 t only can it not do so but it will not. At the last
session of the Communist party it was decided to change
the system of requisitions in favour of one of taxation,
everything rena ining over to be considered the peasant’s
own property. Hor developing the growth of the exchange of
products and to bring up people to the idea of cooperation
this system offers the best advantages*
bhafc is the difference between requisition ' nd a
tribute or tax in kind?
The difference is this that inasmuch as the requisition
seized everything from the peasant the tax will take only
a portion and, further than that, the least possible
portion’.
The ctenge from requisition to tax will be a more
effective weapon in the fight with hunger and a better
quarantee of harmony between peasant and workman.